Cultural Relativism and Ethics Seminar Brings Scholars to
Santa Clara

Renato Rosaldo, author of the forthcoming book Cultural
Citizenship and Educational Democracy (Beacon Press), will
be the first speaker in the 1999­2000 Markkula Seminar Series
on Cultural Relativism and Ethics. His talk, Cultural Relativism
and Committed Anthropology, is open to the public and will take
place Thursday, Nov. 4, at 7 p.m. in the Williman Room of the
Benson Memorial Center at Santa Clara University.

Rosaldo is the Lucie Stern Professor in anthropology at Stanford
University. His work has included research on migrant labor
in Ecuador and Peru, ritual in Mexico, and Ilongot headhunting
in the Philippines. His book Culture and Truth: The Remaking
of Social Analysis won the American Educational Studies
Critics' Choice Award in 1991.

Other speakers in the series include Professor of Philosophy
at Princeton University Gilbert Harman (Jan. 6) and Professor
of Comparative Literature at Stanford University Richard Rorty
(Feb. 3). For more information, contact the Ethics Center at
408-554-5319.

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but seeks to encourage dialogue on the ethical dimensions of current
issues. The Center welcomes comments
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